Just in case someone else is looking to do the same thing, I'll share what I did.

I don't know that this is the best method, and would be open to someone sharing a better way. You could probably extend the jqGrid plugin to fix this, but I'm not sure if that would be overkill for such a small change. It's something that maybe should be included as an option.

This is what I did:

After my grid has loaded I've added this little piece:

if ( $(“#rowNumDD”).length == 0 ) {

$('

').appendTo($(“#subsDiv_toppager_left”));

$(“.ui-pg-selbox”).appendTo($(“#rowNumDD”));

$(“#rowNumDD”).append(” at a time.”);

}

It's pretty self explanatory but this is what the code does.

I've added the if statement to make sure the div I'm creating doesn't exist. Without this if statement you will have an unusable drop down.

This will then create a new